October 2005

New Media Interpretations Of Femininity

In conjunction with the Annual October Series, Bannister Gallery is
presenting the work of Austrian artist Iris Klein. Iris Klein is a multi-media
artist residing in NYC. This year's October series engages multiple
interpretations of femininity in different disciplinary and cultural contexts.
Iris Klein's "Notes of a Body-Double", continues her inquiries into constructed
photographic environments. Klein creates a series of still-life images inhabited
by a featureless life-sized rag doll "peeled off" her body. Like a cartoon, we
easily slip into this constructed world for the female figure functions in these
images as a place-holder which reveals invisible cultural forces at play.
Klein's work brings novel perspectives on intentionality, subjectivity, and gaze
into the photographic discourse.

The related October series, New Media Interpretations of Femininity, will
present speakers, performance and films on the manifold ways in which femininity
manifests itself in contemporary culture.

Series organized by Katherine Rudolph (Philosophy), Alexandra Broches
(Gallery Director) and Richard R. Weiner (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences) with support by the College Lecture Series and the Arts and Sciences
Dean's Office.